WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Friday challenged the validity of an impeachment inquiry run by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives into President Joe Biden’s son’s business dealings. A letter from White House legal counsel Dick Sauber sent to House Republicans leading the inquiry said the probe was not valid since the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. first lady Rosalynn Carter, the 96-year-old wife of former President Jimmy Carter, has entered hospice care at home, the Carter Center said in a statement on Friday. In May 2023, the Carter family had said the former first lady had dementia but was continuing to live happily at the couple’s home …
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By Moira Warburton and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Embattled U.S. Representative George Santos faced a fresh effort to expel him from Congress on Friday, the day after fellow lawmakers released a report that suggested federal prosecutors should bring additional criminal charges against him. House of Representatives Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest introduced the bill …
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By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – The stopgap funding bill to keep the U.S. government open signed by President Joe Biden on Thursday includes funding through next September for farm programs and food assistance, but only a few months of funds for a key nutrition program for low-income mothers and their young children. The spending bill …
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By Howard Schneider BOSTON (Reuters) – Millions of “gig” workers may get missed every month in the U.S. government’s employment report, a discrepancy with implications for how Federal Reserve officials size up the job market and any associated inflation risks. Research prepared for a Boston Federal Reserve labor market conference found that whether driving for …
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden signed on Thursday a stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown, a day after the Senate passed it, the White House said. Biden signed the document on the sidelines of a dinner at the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco, where leaders are attending the Asia …
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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – R&B vocalist Cassandra Ventura sued Sean “Diddy” Combs in federal court on Thursday, accusing the rapper and hip-hop mogul she once dated and whose music label she signed with of subjecting her to serial physical abuse, sexual slavery and rape. One of the central allegations against Combs by …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Education said on Thursday it has begun investigations of six colleges and one school district over accusations of antisemitic or anti-Muslim discrimination during an ongoing war between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza. In one such instance federal prosecutors last month charged a Cornell University student with allegedly making online …
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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – The federal civil rights trial of a former Louisville, Kentucky, police officer charged in the 2020 death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose killing fueled a wave of racial justice protests, was declared a mistrial on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings declared the mistrial in the trial …
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By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) -A California man was arrested on Thursday and set to be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a Jewish man who fell to the ground during an altercation at pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian street demonstrations earlier this month. Paul Kessler, 69, died of blunt force head trauma a day after …
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